| 单词 | drawing |
| 释义 | drawing (once / 96 pages) 1n 2n 3n A drawing is a sketch or a picture, usually made with a pencil or pen. You might use extra class time after you've finished a test to make a quick drawing of your teacher sleeping at his desk. A drawing is an artwork that's not a painting — it's made of sketched lines and represents some object, person, or form. An architect might begin working on a project for a house design by doing some drawings, and a kindergartener might proudly hang a drawing of her family on the refrigerator. Another kind of drawing is the act of pulling, which is also the earliest meaning of the word. WORD FAMILYdrawing: drawings+/draw: drawed, drawee, drawer, drawing, draws, drew, overdraw/drawee: drawees/drawer: drawers/drawers: underdrawers/overdraw: overdrawing, overdrawn, overdraws, overdrew USAGE EXAMPLESHis mask - which he painted himself, based on drawings by a local illustrator - features caricatures of the team’s other equipment men. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The cinematography of “Louie” was more artful, often drawing from the French New Wave. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) His mask — which he painted himself, based on drawings by a local illustrator — features caricatures of the team’s other equipment men. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines drawings of abstract forms he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures Hypo|Hyper charcoal a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material delineation, depiction, limning, line drawinga drawing of the outlines of forms or objects diagrama drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts mechanical drawingscale drawing of a machine or architectural plan etc, pen-and-inka drawing executed with pen and ink architectural plan, planscale drawing of a structure renderingperspective drawing of an architect's design doodle, scrabble, scribblean aimless drawing silhouettea drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color silverpointa drawing made on specially prepared paper with an instrument having a silver tip (15th and 16th centuries) sketch, studypreliminary drawing for later elaboration stick figuredrawing of a human or animal that represents the head by a circle and the rest of the body by straight lines trace, tracinga drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image animalizationa depiction in the form of an animal block diagrama diagram showing the interconnections between the components of system (especially an electronic system) designa preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something draft, rough drawinga preliminary sketch of a design or picture elevationdrawing of an exterior of a structure floor planscale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level; contrasts with elevation horizontal sectiona mechanical drawing of an object as if made by a plane cutting through it horizontally horoscopea diagram of the positions of the planets and signs of the zodiac at a particular time and place schematic, schematic drawingdiagram of an electrical or mechanical system Venn diagram, Venn's diagrama diagram that uses circles to represent mathematical or logical sets pictorially inside a rectangle (the universal set); elements that are common to more than one set are represented by intersections of the circles vertical sectiona mechanical drawing showing the interior of an object as if made by a vertical plane passing through it vignettea small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books) zodiac(astrology) a circular diagram representing the 12 zodiacal constellations and showing their signs representation a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something 2n the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams he learned drawing from his father Syn|Hypo|Hyper drafting, draftsmanship pyrography the act of producing drawings on wood or leather by using heated tools or a fine flame tracingthe act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline art, artistic creation, artistic production the creation of beautiful or significant things 3n an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper 2it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7 Hypo|Hyper frame a single drawing in a comic_strip art, artwork, graphics, nontextual matter photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication 1n the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling Syn|Hyper draft, draught pull, pulling the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you 2n act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source 3the drawing of water from the well Syn|Hypo|Hyper drawing off derivation drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation derivationdrawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body drain a gradual depletion of energy or resources n players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots Syn|Hypo|Hyper lottery tombola a lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum lucky dipa game in which prizes (e.g., candies or coins) are concealed in a container and for a small sum a player can draw one out at random numbers, numbers game, numbers pool, numbers racketan illegal daily lottery rafflea lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money sweepstakesa lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants gambling game, game of chance a game that involves gambling |
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